Golf club



June 23, 1-925. 1,543.636

H. WILLIAMSON GOLF CLUB Filed June 9, 1924 Patented June 23, 1925.

units stares HUGE WILLIAHESON, OF BOUBNEMOUTI-I, ENGLAND.

GOLF

CLUB.

Application fi led June 9, 1924. Serial No. 718,951.

T 0 all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, HUGH VViLLiAMsoN, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at 6 Linwood Road, Bournemouth, in the county ofHampshire, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGolf Clubs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to golf clubs, es pecially to those known as ironclubs, and it has for its object to improve the balance whereby torender them more accurate in play.

So-called iron clubs comprise a head forged in mild steel, consisting ofa blade and a tubular shank into which the wooden shaft of the club isfitted.

To counterbalance the weight of said tubular shank the blade isincreased in thickness or swelled at certain parts, but there is a limitto which this method of balancing can be carried because a club headmust conform as nearly as possible to conventional design or it isliable to be regarded as freakish and will not find favour with playersof the game. In consequence the amount by which the weight of the shankcan be balanced by designing the head is, generally speaking, verysmall, and is insufiicient to enable the weight of the head of the clubto be concentrated in the ideal place, viz, the vertical centre line ofthe blade.

This invention is designed tosecure the desired concentration of theweight of the head and achieves its object by constructing the shank ofthe head of a lighter metal or material than that of which the blade iscomposed.

Thus, for example, the shank may be composed of a suitable alloy ofaluminium, which possesses the required lightness and strength, and maybe attached to the blade by being screwed thereinto, orotherwisesuitably; and in order to compensate for the reduced weight of the shankthe blade may be thickened slightly at the sole, or may be formed at theback with an integral rib, which thickening can be so regulated as tolocate the centre of gravity, of the head as a whole, in the verticalcentre line of the blade.

The blade A is, as usual, of forged mild 7 steel and is formed with ashort neck B which is bored or drilled out and screw threaded internallyat C. D is a tubular tapered shank composed of a suitable al- 10y ofaluminium which shank is formed solid at its lower end and hasprojecting therefrom an integral spigot E screw threaded correspondinglyto the bore of the neck B into which said spigot is screwed. I

When these parts have been thus assembled a hole F is drilledtransversely through the neck B and spigot E into which hole a pin G isdriven and its ends are rivett-ed over.

The wood shaft of the club, not shown, may be secured in the tubularshank D in the usual or any other convenient manner.

Instead of being screw threaded as shown the bore of the neck B and thespigot E may be tapered and the spigot may be a driving fit therein andmay be secured by a transverse pin or a set screw, or otherwisesuitably.

The invention is applicable to any of the various forms of iron clubs.

hat I claim is 1. A golf club head comprising, a blade of forged mildsteel, a short neck integral with said blade, said short neck beingbored and screw threaded, a shank composed of a suitable alloy ofaluminium, said shank being tubular, a spigot formed on said shank, saidspigot being screwthreaded and being screwed into said screwthreadedbore of said neck, and means to secure said parts in assembled position.

2. A golf club head comprising a blade of forged mild steel, a shortneck integral with said blade, said short neck being bored andscrewthreaded, tubular shank composed 01 a suitable alloy of aluminium,a spigot formed solid with said tubular shank, said spigot beingscrewtlireaded and being screwed into said serewthreaded bore of saidneck, a passage formed transversely of said spigot, diametricallyopposite apertures formed in said neck, and a cross-pin fitting intosaid passage and said apertures when said parts are in assembledrelationship.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EIUGH WVILLIAMSGN.

